MUNCIE, Ind. — Imagine for a second being Brady Hunt on Friday night. You're looking at your teammates in the huddle — well, looking down at your teammates. He's 6-foot-5, while his tallest skill player is 6-3 and biggest lineman is 6-1. Anyways, it's your first start at quarterback and your workhorse from the last two years, Charlie Spegal, is not there.

Hunt said he was nervous all day. But once he completed his first pass, it was game on.

"It's always nerve-wracking going into your first game, no matter what sport it is," said Hunt, who had six catches as a freshman receiver last year. "When you do one of your first things right, it always feels good."

Hunt put together a solid game, finishing 8-for-12 for 122 yards and two touchdowns while not making any big mistakes. Wesley Stitt scored four touchdowns (two rushing, two receiving) on 98 total yards and Wesley Woodin added a rushing score as Delta defeated Central 35-6 and won its seventh straight season opener.

Things were different without Spegal, who rushed for 221 yards and seven touchdowns in his first half with New Palestine Friday night, but this was an encouraging start for an Eagles team that will spread the ball around this season.

"We're a little different, and that's fun. Opportunities for a lot of guys," third-year coach Chris Overholt said. "We had more participation in practice, guys are focused and any of them know it could be their night. It was Stitt's night tonight, but we don't call it by the player in. We call it by position. It could be Zach Garner, Brady Pease, anyone at that position.

"It was just a really good night."

Delta has been very dependent on Spegal the last two seasons, and with good reason. They're 13-10 over the past two years with a sectional title, and Spegal carried it a combined 683 times for 4,343 yards — he's on pace to shatter the all-time state record — and 50 touchdowns.

This team, though, is more balanced. There is speed with guys like Stitt, Zach Garner and Woodin at wingback. Pease (team-high 10 carries for 59 yards), Dawson West and Conner Bedwell provide some power. The Eagles scored 12 touchdowns in their scrimmage last week against Richmond, eight by different players.

Stitt's 15-yard touchdown catch with 2:51 left in the first quarter was his first varsity touchdown. The other three were icing on the cake.

"It felt pretty great," Stitt said. "I put a lot of trust in my teammates. They helped me get that, I wouldn't be able to do it without them. That first touchdown really got me hyped up. Coach kept feeding me the ball, and we kept getting results. My other wings were doing great, too, and we were passing the ball well."

That touchdown pass was also Delta's first as a team since 2016, thrown by Tanner Lambert. Garner played quarterback last year, but ran it 140 times as opposed to 115 pass attempts.

"It makes my job easy to have other guys that can do work, and not have it centered around me and one running back the whole time," Hunt said.